Phrases you’d like to ban

[YouBoughtMeAWall]

I’ll start

Support bubble.

I’ll happily go the rest of my life never hearing this phrase. In fact even the word bubble has exceeded its usage quota for the entire rest of time.

What is yours?

The use of the phrase 'friendly reminder' or 'gentle reminder' to preface some performatively woke nonsense - twitter is especially bad for this. Don't patronise me, just say what you want to say.

Little man. I always picture not a baby or toddler, but a tiny gnarled homunculus, fully formed but grotesque.

grunt work - ffs ! you have a problem if you are grunting when you are working.

super, odfod !

Fair enough

No idea why but it annoys the hell out of me when people say it in conversation.

Packs a punch
Government deals

I really hate it when people say ‘due to’ - no idea why!

Unprecedented and tier can also go and jump in the lake.

Not forgetting Brexit either!

...But that's just me.

I nearly OPd in aibu about this one today. Always said at the end of a smugger than smug post, and means 'I know I'm better than you, and now so do you'

@purplemunkey, the funniest ( ironic, sarcastic) response to that would've been..I was going to post exactly that....Are you me? 🤣

Little man. I always picture not a baby or toddler, but a tiny gnarled homunculus, fully formed but grotesque.

To me, it means fairies - and a tough rather than tinselly variety. As a kid, I learned a poem about fairies with the lines 'We dare not go a-hunting/ For fear of little men', and it's stuck with me.

With all due respect...(here comes an insult)

I'm not being rude but...(yes, you are)

I'm not being funny, (you are right, it's not the least bit funny)

[quote Hurtandupset2]**@purplemunkey, the funniest ( ironic, sarcastic) response to that would've been..I was going to post exactly that....Are you me? 🤣[/quote]
But then I would have annoyed even myself...

Food of the gods.

Boak.

Pandemic
Covid secure
Covid-19
COVID in capital
Because of covid
Social distancing
Socially distanced walk/drink/chat
Support bubble
Bubble up

Basically all the phrases of 2020 can fuck off

When people use the 'spot' for a specific place. As in 'a parking spot'. Vile.

Anything that refers to me as a “reader”.

“And that Dear Reader was me”

“Dear Reader, I left him”

Stasi - anyone who uses it had no idea what it really means.

"The science" said by anyone who has apparently not even got a high school understanding of basic science.
"The science has changed" -- NO IT BLOODY HASN'T!
"We're following the science" -- What science? Which studies? By whom? Published where? Peer reviewed when?

@warmandtoasty2day

grunt work - ffs ! you have a problem if you are grunting when you are working.

That's not what it means though, is it? A grunt is like a low ranking worker/soldier, so they get given the shit jobs to do, hence grunt work - doing the shitty work higher up don't want or have to do. No grunting involved.

If you have trouble conceiving I think I may know why

So that's what's been going wrong all these years!

@Northernmummy80

Fair enough

No idea why but it annoys the hell out of me when people say it in conversation.

"Fair enough" is the biggest conversation killer, I hate it too!

TWAW
That one can go fuck....

I never want to hear the word ‘bubble’. It’s so patronising.

Not much bothers me really except for the word 'super' that seems to have become very overused.

'Im super excited'
'It's super exciting'
'I'm super happy'

Journey and roller coaster when used to describe an experience in your life or to describe emotions.

@Signaturesoftheworkers

Isolating 🤐

I don't mind 'isolating' but I cannot stand 'self-isolating'. Is there any other way?